Powwow at Petrack Park, blues at the HUBB

The big ticket item for this weekend is the annual Social Powwow at Petrack Park which begins Friday afternoon. The grand entrance will be at 10 a.m. Saturday.

By Charlene Dean Pahrump Valley Times cdean@pvtimes.com

November 21, 2014 - 7:01 am

The big ticket item for this weekend is the annual Social Powwow at Petrack Park which begins Friday afternoon. The grand entrance will be at 10 a.m. Saturday.

This is a chance to get some unique gifts from the vendors and learn something about Native American culture. If you find a piece of a dancer’s costume on the ground, be respectful. Leave it where you find it and get an elder from the drum circle to retrieve it.

The All-Star Blues band, consisting of Mike Hickey on guitar and vocals, Greg Smith on guitar and vocals, Bob White on bass and vocals and Wild Bill on drums, will be playing at 7 p.m., Nov. 21 at the HUBB, 3720 W. Bell Vista Road.

A fundraiser for Ruthie Edwards, co-owner of the Bounty Hunter will take the form of a pajama party. Wear your best jammies to the party, which begins at 7 p.m. Karaoke, food, raffle and an auction will be part of the festivities.

The bar is located at the corner of East and Second streets.

The Maverick is playing for the younger set with four bands beginning at 7 p.m. Music will be provided by the Wretched Soul Kids, Sine Wave, Strange Mistress, Lawn Mower Death Rider and the Bounty Hunter Brothers.

On Thanksgiving, the Maverick will hold a potluck Thanksgiving meal from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. for their customers and those who would enjoy a meal with others. Bring a side dish to share.

KNYE Radio will hold a food drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 22 at Smith’s Food &Drug. The donations can be monetary, perishable or non-perishable and will help the VFW food bank and other local food banks for Thanksgiving.

The Nye County Republican Central Committee, with the participation of the Pahrump Valley Times, hosted a GOP debate last weekend for the contenders vying for the Republican vote in the 2020 primary election, with nearly three dozen candidates joining in to tackle a variety of topics pertinent to their various offices and thousands of voters watching over two days of discourse and debate.

The Pahrump Fall Festival is, hands down, the single largest community event in the valley each year but over the past few years, it has been dwindling a bit in terms of participation by vendors offering merchandise and goodies for the thousands of people who turn out on a regular basis. With this in mind, town and county officials have made the decision to revise the vendor booth fee schedule, lowering the prices in an effort to attract more vendors and make the 2020 Fall Festival a resounding success.

It’s been more than two months since the last community gathering was held in Pahrump and though certain restrictions are still in place regarding the number of people allowed to congregate in public or private settings, the town is now readying for the first large-scale public event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada, its annual Movies in the Park.

Pahrump Valley motorists who regularly travel along Leslie Street might want to consider another route this Thursday and Friday, May 28 and 29, as the repaving project for the stretch of Leslie Street between Basin Avenue and Irene Street is set to take place over the next two days.

More than seven months after the Storm Area 51 event that had Nye County in an official state of emergency, the county now has a view of just how much the event cost it, with a reported $363,000 in unbudgeted expenses connected to the phenomenon that grew out of what was originally intended as a social media joke.

Even as we see improvement in the current pandemic, but continue the process of quarantine, isolation, hibernation and social distancing, do what you can by continuing to work at home, work with government programs and creditors.

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